Using Quicksilver Mac and AppleScript to Adjust System Volume

Extendible to command line

I’ve been using Quicksilver for a while, and I’d heard of how powerful but never taken advantage of it. I wanted to adjust the system volume through Quicksilver: right now, I have to use fn + f10 / f11 / f12 to adjust volume, since I chose to have f1-f12 map to the normal keys.

It seems that there’s actually no Quicksilver plugin for system volume – only iTunes volume – but it’s pretty simple to do with AppleScripts. It’s not documented everywhere, so I thought I’d add it here.

Volume AppleScripts

The AppleScripts below will adjust the system volume, which is measured on a scale of 0 - 100. Here’s a download link for these three scripts. To use them in Quicksilver, add them to the catalog, and opening them in Quicksilver should run them by default.